Hack an optical mouse into a camera with Arduino and Processing

[maiodev]

if you could detect how much to the left or right someting moves you could use it to control a motor and find a specific position. that could be really useful

[thePavuk]

I've hunted and killed 13 mouses before I found A2610 sensor. I've found 10 sensors, only one with datasheet.

[KiLLeRxxBuNNy]

what course did you get in college?

[AddColorsToYourLife]

stripping wires with teeth SOMETIMES WHEN YOU WANT THINGS DONE, YOU JUST WANT THINGS DONE

[fridgdog]

i want your work bench man!

[ezekyew]

NERD !

[zackery261]

Ah, I'm glad I'm not the only one who bites and spits out my wire to strip it!!

[djdavies83]

How about using a lens from a disposable camera and using the mouse as a barcode scanner?

[hzm32]

whit exrta drametick misic!

[fabiuh991]

is it possible to do the same but with a nokia 5610 camera?

[szyszka8303]

Great job, imagine that you can use this job for thermal camera, infrared detector. I find one that generate 1024x768px, check how much cost FLIX cameras. :)

[opticallover]

hello ljandersson its very intresting and amazing.Thanks to share with us.Regards to your hardwork.i want to try this one.can u tell me which application software is used to view the camera image in your pc.waiting for your Great post.....

[repsmetsast]

Have you tried using the optical sensor separately (desoldered) without the mouse board? Would it still work?

[HazakyProductions]

Shiii ... whats the music playin while soldering? I remember this song from when i was a little kid. I need the name of that! :<

[ljandersson]

@HazakyProductions Theme from twin peaks.

[cjellwood]

omg, that is the geekiest t-shirt ever in the history of geek

[cjellwood]

how did you make soldering into a movie moment?

[iBlackwind]

Sorry for not being clear, I meant a driver for a camera module which is to be connected externally to the iPad. Currently the iPad does not have a camera:(

[ljandersson]

To be honest, I don't know that much about developing for the ipod/ipad/iphone. But I would hazard a guess that it would be difficult to write drivers for your own custom hardware, just from what I've heard about app development for those platforms.

Sorry if the video is getting anyone's hopes up, it was intended more as a dead-pan joke than anything else. :)

[iBlackwind]

So is it possible to write a driver for a camera module for the ipad?

[ljandersson]

@iBlackwind Are you asking if it's possible to write a driver for the iPad that lets it pull data from an optical mouse camera? Good god, I have no idea. Doesn't the iPad already have a perfectly good camera (that actually focuses beyond 2mm?)

[nws15]

hi

wat if i dun have arduino?

can i use USB cable to connect mouse to computer instead of connecting to arduino by using matlab programming?

[ljandersson]

@nws15

You may be able to write a driver for certain mice to dump the image, but I doubt it could be done with matlab. The optical data is buried pretty deeply in the mouse hardware.

[bagar0001]

I'm not understand anything what you said, geek stuff maybe. But, this video is awesome !